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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights
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Seems like Trump's strategy is to now bully countries into getting what they want. "I want them out!!! I want Canada!!! I want Greenland!!!
He's basically the equivalent of the kid that flips over the monopoly table when someone bought a property before him.
I feel like all economies will soon be just trading with eachother, except with the US.
That is the only logical step. You can’t make deals with someone who throws you under the bus at the next opportunity 🤷🏻
They should start now. Countries should cut off trading with the US once Trump starts making threats in their direction, instead of waiting for him to make up his mind and do something. He's too used to there not being any consequences.
It's a good idea and countries started that with Russia though it's still continuing. USA would just follow that model
https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=RUB&To=USD
What do they care about the exchange value if they're not exchanging anything with the US?
Adjusted for PPP, the Russian economy is the 4th biggest in the world, experiencing a boom after the start of the war. Largest than any in Europe.
Everyone knows the USD is artificially inflated and has been for decades, propped up by oil and the threat of violence. Y'all gonna learn when this mother of all bubbles pops.
Do to the US what the US did to cuba? That would be so cruel.
what the US ~~did~~ is doing to cuba...
To be fair, they are doing it to themselves.
Cuba threatened nobody. Self defense isn't the same as aggression.
A growing number of Canadians are already calling for exactly that
INB4 EU joins BRICS
Won't happen. EU is designed to serve the US, but we'll see countries breaking off and (re)uniting with Russia.
The problem with that is that anti-Russian sentiment is highest in the East, so there's no way they will break off.
Also Russia is not China, they barely have anything to give in a trade relationship. Also, the Ukraine invasion is scrounging up bad memories in most of the member states, so there's that.
In Hungary, arguably the country closest ideologically to Russia, EU membership has had a consistent 70-80% approval. They won't break off.
Also, the EU is designed to protect EU business interests against international ones, so they will go where the money is, and under Trump, that may cease to be the US.
It's highest in the North-East, lowest in the South East.
There's currently no direct land connection between Russia and Moldava/Slovakia/Romania/Hungary,
and without it, there's no potential protection.
Georgia is already slowly turning around.
Russia is an ally of China. What they have to give is the same as the EU (Germany) has to give with the US as their ally.
So far the EU has done everything in power to not protect EU business interests and favor US business interests over anything else.
Are you from the Eastern EU?
It's not like that. The EU invests insane, Marshall-plan amounts of money into its Eastern member states, and it very visibly goes into infrastructure. Even stuff that is stolen by corruption is just money that goes into shit nobody needs, but still gets.
Every second playgorund, every motorway and new line of rail, every scientific lab and every second pub has a big-ass sign next to it saying "Built for a kajillion Euros by the EU".
Relations with the US are also independent from relations to Germany/France/the EU, especially since the US doesn't like to deal with the entire EU at once, since they can't flex their muscles as much. The US also doesn't really understand it, look at the new chip restrictions cutting the free market zone in half. All that also goes for China by the way.
Russia is simply incapable of giving a better deal than the EU. It can't afford and is not credible to even want to spend as much as the EU. Also, Estonian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish are official languages in Brussels, would they also be in Moscow? It's just not comparable. And nobody needs Russia to trade with China. In fact, the big BnR rail line China/Serbia/Hungary is doing - the one that sparked the current protests that might mean the fall of the Russia/China aligned Serbian government - specifically avoids Russia. Most of current Chinese trade actually is mediated by the Netherlands and Romania/Bulgaria.
All I'm saying is that from the Eastern European viewpoint, if the EU/US and China/Russia are both a bundle deal - I believe they are not - then everyone will choose the one that doesn't have Russia in it. If it's not, the US and China are not necessarily different as a trading partner.
He literally is a petulant spoilt brat nappy wearing trust fund kid with unresolved daddy issues.
New speedrun just dropped:
Any% screwing up the inland economy
For the sake of the planet I hope he gets a world record
And threatening sanctions on any country that disagrees too.